In 1949, the cold war became a nuclear arms race when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb. United States military and ...

At 8:15 a.m.—as survivors still remember—came a flash of light, followed by a shock wave that blew people and buildings apart ...

For decades, Americans have been able to keep a comfortable distance from the disturbing visuals captured after the dropping ...

The mayor of Hiroshima, which in 1945 was devastated by a US atomic bomb, on Friday denounced the weapons as "absolute evil" after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a group of survivors ...

In cities across the United States, thousands of Americans are ... 200,000 people were killed as a result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A timeline of the most destructive ...

The survivors are from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities that the United States dropped nuclear bombs on in 1945 at the end of World War II. Hiroshima was hit on August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 ...

the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air ...

However, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought World ... bombs and the deaths of ...